loveit comes i suffocate it and let it breatheand suffocate my heart it aches and slows me downi am grateful for being slowed downto see the delusions and catch the heart movements

Just keep breathing in and out like this. Don't be interested in anything else. It doesn't matter even if someone is standing on their head with their ass in the air. Don't pay it any attention. Just stay with the in-breath and the out-breath. Concentrate your awareness on the breath. Just keep doing it. http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Just_Do_It_1_2.php

Caught between two tidesI float upon the oceanDukkha it abidesWhile I struggle with emotion

When will dividends be paidWhen will my time comeI envision the dhamma's shadeSo peaceful and so numb

I see the light of mettaThe ease of having peacepossessing no vendettaone day I'll find release.

"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

If you have any criticism or ideas for improvement, I'd like to hear them.

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All life will end,though peace need not.This truth our friend,with mind, had caughtbeneath the tree,where Mara soughtto bend his knee.Our mighty lord,at last set free,had severed cordand splintered yolk,drove Mara’s hoard,whose power broke.With mind now clean,he’d scattered smoke,and then had seenwhat all must see:that face he’d been-- had always been --he could not flee.For death is change,and change was he.But in this rangeof death unmoved,we may exchangeour greed, disproved,for hearts at ease,with grief removedby knowing right.

"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

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"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

Beings wanting pleasure,filled with sensual desire,grasping at that which they perceive,clinging to that which they have,- losing everything when Death takes them...

Recklessly seeking their preferences,taking from those who have,disputing, threatening, fighting,hoarding it all away someplace secret,- destroying themselves with their vile deeds...

Beasts facing the elements in the wild,unsatisfied spirits bewildered and alone,beings of constant fighting and violence,life after life of burning torment,- all of these sorry states await...

Renouncing pleasure-seeking,holding the mind steady, peaceful,composed of reason, wise and virtuous,offering truth to all who dare ask for it,the Hells abandoned forever,- assured of victory against Death...

Beings wanting pleasure,filled with sensual desire,grasping at that which they perceive,clinging to that which they have,- losing everything when Death takes them...

Recklessly seeking their preferences,taking from those who have,disputing, threatening, fighting,hoarding it all away someplace secret,- destroying themselves with their vile deeds...

Beasts facing the elements in the wild,unsatisfied spirits bewildered and alone,beings of constant fighting and violence,life after life of burning torment,- all of these sorry states await...

Renouncing pleasure-seeking,holding the mind steady, peaceful,composed of reason, wise and virtuous,offering truth to all who dare ask for it,the Hells abandoned forever,- assured of victory against Death...

An escape is known- by those who have tread well the path.------Also, an awesome idea this thread was, at least in my opinion.k

Sorry, I didn't make a back up so it's gone forever . I just felt it was a bit too personal and emotional for this sort of thing.

Here's a couple of verses to make up for it.

Rain at last on this autumn dayWarming my toes in front of the heaterFeeling glum while the sky is greyWriting a poem with common metre

That last line will be hard to beatFeel like I'm having a creative blockSometimes I feel like pressing deleteTime for a sit, to Dhamma I flock

"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

BlackBird wrote:Sorry, I didn't make a back up so it's gone forever . I just felt it was a bit too personal and emotional for this sort of thing.yawares: Personal/emotional..that's how people write beautiful poems

Here's a couple of verses to make up for it.

Rain at last on this autumn dayWarming my toes in front of the heaterFeeling glum while the sky is greyWriting a poem with common metre

That last line will be hard to beatFeel like I'm having a creative blockSometimes I feel like pressing deleteTime for a sit, to Dhamma I flock

BlackBird wrote:Sorry, I didn't make a back up so it's gone forever . I just felt it was a bit too personal and emotional for this sort of thing.yawares: Personal/emotional..that's how people write beautiful poems

Here's a couple of verses to make up for it.

Rain at last on this autumn dayWarming my toes in front of the heaterFeeling glum while the sky is greyWriting a poem with common metre

That last line will be hard to beatFeel like I'm having a creative blockSometimes I feel like pressing deleteTime for a sit, to Dhamma I flock

BlackBird wrote:Sorry, I didn't make a back up so it's gone forever . I just felt it was a bit too personal and emotional for this sort of thing.yawares: Personal/emotional..that's how people write beautiful poems